To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.
~ from STILLNESS SPEAKS by Eckhart Tolle
To pray is not to use special language; it is the sound of a cry or a laugh rising from ordinary days. Formal or official words can often be lifeless. To pray we need to return like children to an elemental language of soul, to something close to song, to chant, to playground singing.